Lillian Nordica (December , â€" May , ) was an American opera singer
who had a major stage career in Europe and her native country.Nordica
established herself as one of the foremost dramatic sopranos of the
late th and early th centuries. She had a powerful yet flexible voice
and the ability to perform an unusually wide range of roles in the
German, French and Italian operatic repertoires.Lillian Allen Norton
was born in in a small Cape Cod style farmhouse built by her
grandfather on a hill in Farmington, Maine.In her youth, Norton is
said to have possessed an inherent fondness for music and the sounds
of singing birds and running brooks. When she was eight her family
moved to Boston, Massachusetts to continue the musical education of
her sister Wilhelmina. Wilhelmina died before her th birthday. Family
hopes were then pinned on Lillian, and her musical education began
soon thereafter. She trained as a singer in Boston, graduating from
the New England Conservatory in that city at the age of .
who had a major stage career in Europe and her native country.Nordica
established herself as one of the foremost dramatic sopranos of the
late th and early th centuries. She had a powerful yet flexible voice
and the ability to perform an unusually wide range of roles in the
German, French and Italian operatic repertoires.Lillian Allen Norton
was born in in a small Cape Cod style farmhouse built by her
grandfather on a hill in Farmington, Maine.In her youth, Norton is
said to have possessed an inherent fondness for music and the sounds
of singing birds and running brooks. When she was eight her family
moved to Boston, Massachusetts to continue the musical education of
her sister Wilhelmina. Wilhelmina died before her th birthday. Family
hopes were then pinned on Lillian, and her musical education began
soon thereafter. She trained as a singer in Boston, graduating from
the New England Conservatory in that city at the age of .
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